The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-06-30

if he had a week to spare. There are few
more narrowing sights i'll the tropics than
a half-awakened, wholly distracted new
chum bIindly racing round en- deshabille,
barking his shins and treading on tacks,
hunting for the mosquito, which he never
by any chance succeeds in catching.
ISLAND SALT.
A considerable quantity of salt is col
Iected throughout the islands from the
shallow ponds along the shore, and near
Honolulu there exists most peculiar salt
pond, situated in all extinct crater about
mile from the shore. In this natural pond,
at certain seasons of the year, salt forms
spontaneously and in great quantities, and,
although the average depth is only Is
inches in the center, the bottom has never
yet been sounded, and is supposed to be
connected by a subterranean passage with
the sea. Another morning is devoted to
the lovely
NUUANU AVENUE AND CEMETERY,
Where quite number of officers and men
of H. Ms Navy INCLUDING Two command
ers) have found a last resting place
Among the many beautiful and costly
monuments erected in the cemetery none
seems more appropriate and touching than
small marble tablet, bearing the simple
record "Wee jamie" surmounted by the
chiselled representation of lamb, and
telling more eloquently than words of the
sorrowful hearts the childish prattler had
left behind. The heat becoming unbeara-
Bile, we return to the shelter of the veranda,
and the cool rec sses of the bath, and pre-
pare for departure on the morrow,
THE DEPARTURE OF THE FRISCO STEAMER
Is always a great event at Honolulu. The
Royal brass band turns cut. and every
body and his wife-a laughing, frolicsome
crowd, literally bestrewn with flowers, are
there. So on Saturday, July 31st, we
steam away from an immense, fi0wer-be-
decked, dusky gathering on the wharf, and
leave Honolulu amid the waving of hun
dreds of handkerchiefs and the friendly
'alohas" of thousand tongues aloha,
like the Samoan alofa, expressing both joy
and sorrow, friendly greeting and
kindly farewell. To the traveller from tenn
perate and less genial chimes, a tropical
country must always be full of interest,
and the wonderful luxuriance of its vege-
tation must ever be source of wonder
and delight. To me Hawaii has been
more than this; living as 1 had done for
many years among the bleak bare hills and
the treeless, comparatively barren-looking
plains of Central Otago, where every green
field was an oasis in desert of brown tus-
sock, and every sickly tree and struggling
gooseberry b ush cherished as thing of
beauty, the visit to these tropical islands
was plunge into fairyland, and my four
weeks stay delightful dream.
OUTSIDE THE HARBOR
We were met with nasty cross sea, which
continues for forty-eight hours, and rem
ders everybody uncomfortable After this
things settle down bit, and we get along
fairly well, but personally do not enjoy
the Frisco trip half so well as that beauti-
full run from Auckland to Honolulu, nor
the quarters of the steamship Australia so
well as those of the Alameda. The sea is
moderately smooth, however, and the trip
pleasant one, my fellow passengers being
mainly from the sugar plantations and
cattle ranches of Hawaii, on their way to
enjoy a month or so in the cool, invigorat-
ing climates of Upper California and Col
orado.